Two Carbondale Community High School seniors are leading the way to gun reform.
Across the nation thousands will come together on Saturday for March for Our Lives. This march comes in the wake of the Parkland, Florida shooting where 17 people lost their lives and thousands are calling on Congress for gun reform including, Alexis Jones and Maria Maring.
Maring says they felt the need to put together the march.
"Nobody else had taken the initiative to do anything on this national march date."
And Jones says it's time for something to be done.
"It really matters to me because it's just, whenever we hear about school shootings on the news there's a moment of sadness and then there's a moment of oh, it's happened again. And I don't think it should be like that. I don't think we should get used to hearing about school shooting."
And Jones says thoughts like that haven't just started since the Florida shooting.
"So Columbine happened before we were born. So, we've been dealing with school shootings our entire lives. Enough is enough."
The Columbine school shooting happened in 1999, where 13 people were killed and several more were injured.
Maring and Jones say they have been interested in political issues in the past but feel the need to get more involved now.
The march starts Saturday, March 24 at 1pm at the Carbondale Town Square Pavilion.
Andy Leighton, with the Cape County Democratic Party is helping people get to the St. Louis march.
"It really is quite incredible from February 14th to now is what, about five weeks from that event and there are literally over 800 events now, not only across the United States, but around the world and there should be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people attending various marches at these locations."
There is a cost to ride. Spots are still available and the bus leaves the Cape Girardeau Central High School sophomore parking lot at 7 am Saturday, March 24.
